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In the year 2012, I would not take a G4 machine of any sort even if you gave it to me for free. Too old, to expensive to get running to specs, obsolete, unable to use modern software ... the list just goes on and on.

Others with limited needs might find a G4 perfectly acceptable, but I wouldn't even use one as a word processor at this point.